The CPAC straw poll for the 2024 GOP Party presidential candidate was decisively won on Saturday by former President Donald Trump.
In the survey of over 2,000 CPAC attendees, Trump won 62 percent of the vote, placing him 40 points ahead of the runner-up.
Results of the CPAC straw poll were revealed on Saturday, just before Trump addressed the conservative audience at the Gaylord in Fort Washington, Maryland.
In the straw poll, Ron DeSantis, a Republican governor of Florida, finished second with 20% of the vote. Although he hasn’t formally declared his campaign, many political analysts anticipate DeSantis will do so after the conclusion of Florida’s present legislative session in late spring or early summer.
Trump triumphed in the Saturday straw poll comfortably, as he also did at the CPAC gatherings in Orlando, Florida, as well as Dallas, Texas, last year.
Perry Johnson, a businessman from Michigan who ran for governor of his state, finished third with 5% of the vote.
The only two declared candidates on the ballot, former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley along with Vivek Ramaswamy earned three and one percent of the vote, respectively.
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), Senator Cruz (R-TX), and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo were other candidates in the survey; each garnered 1% of the vote.
Because Trump “knows what he is doing and when he gets in there he will not have to get on-the-job training,” Joseph Belnome, a 47-year-old resident of New Jersey who attended CPAC, said he voted for the former president in the straw poll.
“DeSantis is a capable leader. I think he could make a good president in the future. I don’t believe his time has come yet. I believe Trump ought to complete the task he began there,” Belnome continued.
Former Arizona Republican candidate for governor Kari Lake earned 20 percent of the vote in the straw poll for the vice presidential candidates. DeSantis came in second with 14 percent.
Too bad Hannity is pictured here. Fox News can no longer be trusted. Hannity, Tucker , and a few others need to move to NewsMax. I will no longer watch them and support Fox.
What we need to do is get Pual Ryan off the board at fox News!! What a waste of sperm he is!!!
what many americans want is to have trump for president and desantis for VP and in 2028 trump retires and desantis becones President –we have to somehow get these
two together and it will be a win, win for America
I think you have hit the nail on the head connie !
Somehow this pair need to be brought together, to work together as they CAN do if they put their minds to it. Both of them obviously have the sole interests of America at heart when it comes to “administering” this Country.
The present shower of incompetents and their Deep State connivers and malcontents should rot in jail for their treason since 2020 ( and for many of them – since 2016 !! )
This reminds me of Reagan and Bush in 1980, where they mended fences and untied for a landslide slaughter of Jimbo. That kind of GOP win can’t happen now, not with so many stupid, lazy Americans voting, but the gop can still win. Trump may be king in his party, but I don’t trust him to win in 2024, too much baggage and unforced errors.
Honestly? If Trump isn’t the GOP candidate, I doubt I’ll bother to vote.. I might as well vote of O’Biden. All the others are just the same old swamp, democRT light candidates… No thank you..
Quite so Christian Wolf !
It was heartwarming to hear the Good Lord had kicked The Turtle into touch the other day – let that be a lesson for him ! Damned RINO’s !!!
The ONLY baggage Trump has is what the FAKE NEWS has fabricated about him !!!!
Precisely so Richard ! Doubtless the Filth Media will continue its criminal ways, but we must NEVER let them even think they can fully succeed in determining WHO we The People can or cannot Vote FOR as OUR President !